In DOGE Lawsuit, Judge Declines To Block White House Emailing Federal Employees
Unnamed government employees suffered a setback in their legal efforts to stop the White House from emailing executive branch employees.
On Monday, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected the plaintiffs’ request to block the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from using a “government-wide email system” established by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to communicate with all government employees.
D.C. District Court Judge Randolph D. Moss was unpersuaded that the anonymous plaintiffs, who are all using the pseudonym Jane Doe, suffered a serious enough injury to justify their request for a temporary restraining order.
“This is not a case in which Plaintiffs seek to protect highly sensitive personal information, like tax records or sensitive medical files. Instead, they seek to protect their work email addresses,” wrote Moss.
Over the past several weeks, nearly a dozen lawsuits have been filed challenging DOGE’s access to federal government record systems, mostly on claims that this access violates various procedural requirement
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